Temecula, CA Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

08, lists "Cats and Dogs" as a use permitted by right on any parcel with a zoning designation that has a permitted, occupied residential structure, whether single-family or multiple-family. The maximum is set at "any combination of 4 cats or dogs," with no minimum lot size specified, and a footnote clarifies that only animals over four months of age count toward the limit, so litters of puppies or kittens do not push a household over the cap while they are young. This differs from the table's rules for larger animals: keeping cattle, horses, mules, goats, pigs, sheep, or poultry requires at least a half-acre lot with escalating counts per additional half acre, and those larger-animal categories are barred outright in the Hillside Residential (HR), HR-SM, and Open Space-Conservation (OS/OS-C) zones.

010 for a "commercial kennel" or "commercial cattery," which require five or more dogs or cats kept for profit, or, for a non-commercial excess, it falls outside the by-right table and would need conditional use permit review under the same table's process for uses like animal shelters and kennels.